After playing some decades PnP, do you have some useful tactics / tricks for the player?

I found out that flour is very versatile (invisibility, checking if somebody will walk over some way, making glue with water...)

The spell "rope trick" can also be used in a lot of interesting ways.


Tanking with a cleric that casts "shield other" is also great.
Try always to cast "protection from evil" to your fighters. It is very unpleasant when the 80 HP Half Orc Barbarian gets mind controlled.

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Always carry some rope. It is useful for climbing down places, pulling people/stuff out of places, tying up prisoners, doing rope tricks, etc.

Never run (causes noise, can fall into traps, etc.) unless you have to.

Dont allow the players to drink whiskey

Ten foot pole : always useful for poking stuff (chests to detect mimics, suspicious liquids, errant party members, sleeping beasties), and you can snap it in half to improv 2 quarter-staves.

Be inventive, here's a few examples;
http://www.tabletitans.com/tales/post/i-improvised-a-weapon

http://www.tabletitans.com/tales/post/how-to-train-your-rogue

Never, never, NEVER reach into a dark hole with your sword hand.

Awesome thread, Azog!

1) Cary candles, wax is useful in a ton of ways. It can mark rough walls better than chalk, it can stick light objects (thread across a door), it can make a time delay fuse, it can plug small leaks, etc.

2) Pepper can be useful too (not as much as flour) for slowing scent based pursuit, or blinding an opponent. It adds spice to summoned air elementals, too.

3) A metal flask of oil plus a heat metal spell is a 3 round delayed explosive. A metal helmet with heat metal is a self heating stew pot.

4) keep a few chisel point arrows in your quiver, you can cast silence or darkness or continual light on them to greatly increase the range of those spells

5) At higher levels, Shrink Item can be wicked - it lasts for days, so shrink "large"versions of weapons like arrow heads or flasks of greek fire. After you launch them at an enemy, you can dispel it to have them suddenly return to full size, making huge puddles of fire or splitting the boards of a ship as the arrowhead expands. It can also let you carry ungodly amounts of rope

6) if you put one ring of a ring gate at the bottom of a lake you have a short duration high pressure fire hose.

Meursault wrote on Mar 6^th, 2014 at 12:00pm:



Good ones!

If you are a paladin, ALWAYS detect evil before entering a room. The DM will hate you. Only a foot of solid matter can stop it. It is like superman´s x-ray.

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Whaaat thats only way i can play DDo any more is if im shit faced drunk. It makes for great pug groups . everytime some 1 fucks up take shot or drink a beer . I did the new raids that way and by the time there done i cant get out of my chair good thing for depends   

Minor Telekinesis is super broken for a level one spell.

It's great for creating improvised weapons.

Like a pile of sewing needles suddenly becoming a cloud of death.

Or the infinitely thin Tenser's Floating Disc being launched at the limbs of your enemies. Or necks.


to expand on some of the other ideas:

Shrink Item can be used on Ballisate Bolts to turn them into XBow Bolts. Then they can expand and create much bigger holes in things, even after penetrating say, the hull of a ship, a wall, or a halfling.

Swords can carry an electrical current and act as a focal point for Lightning spells, even if you left it stuck in something or someone.

Torture is severely underrated as a means of interrogation. Just make your Paladin stand away from you.

Chaotic Good doesn't mean anything besides "If the Ends Justify the Means..."

Smrti wrote on Mar 29^th, 2014 at 3:32am:


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Smrti wrote on Mar 29^th, 2014 at 5:10am:


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magic missile is also great against opponents with the "Mirror image" spell - AoEs won't dispel the images, but targeting 1 missile each will.

If you can keep track of line of sight it turns into a super power for mages and rogues.

Don't just ask the DM "what's nearby?" Ask for specific things. In a bar? Ask if there's a dart board. Poof! You just created free darts. You might even be able to go further if it's a seedy bar: that kind of clientele would toss daggers, wouldn't they? You get advantages in a fight, and the DM gets texture added to his/her world. Win/win.

Along the same lines, some mage spells were designed to be swiss army knives. Illusion spells especially. If you find you can add details, then you can usually make an illusion into a game-changer. Even an unconvincing illusion, placed deviously, can be devastating. For instance, dig a real pit, and place two or three illusory pits in front of it. When you can get your enemies to start making disbelief attempts on real things, you own their reality.